So after refusing to get vaccinated this entire time, my 76 year old mom calls me from the hospital in Austin after needing to be EMS'd from her home in Plugerville.
She tested positive for Covid, of course, and my 82 year old dad is at home. He doesn't use technology much at all and is struggling to answer my phone call.
I finally get talking to him and we convince him to go get tested at Walgreens, but he reports back they aren't testing.
We got him to go to the Public Health testing site in downtown P-ville, so we're waiting to hear back.
My mom reports she had started feeling bad on Friday and today she was too weak to get from her bed to her bathroom.
I spoke to her on the phone for an hour on Saturday night and she didn't once bring up that she was feeling bad.
I could hear her shame over the phone when she admitted to testing positive, because I had asked on multiple occasions for them to get their shots.
So for now my mom is stable at the hospital and being admitted today.
I'm in Houston, vaxxed up, but i'm high risk, so i'm not sure how I should help out.
Hopefully, he can get tested and isn't positive, but I'm sure spending last 5 days with her that's unlikely.